TODAY: In 1802, Victor Hugo is born in Besancon, France.
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“The peculiar way in which we form memories can lead us to stray far from reality, yet gives us the fuel to imagine a world with endless possibilities.” On Solomon Shereshevsky, the man who remembered everything. | Lit Hub Science
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Michael Almereyda discusses the seldomly considered color photographs of Garry Winogrand. | Lit Hub Photography
- Devin Murphy on woodworking, writerly angst, and freeing up the energy to compose. | Lit Hub Craft
- “The spirit is leading an insurrection, and the body responds by calling for a return to unthinking habit.” John Oakes on the biological processes behind fasting. | Lit Hub Science
- Shayla Lawson on global conceptions of black identity: “When we treat Black culture as the global ethnicity of the diaspora, we miss that there are black people everywhere who don’t fit neatly inside it.” | Lit Hub Memoir
- “We worshipped Our Author, and when she sent us an email telling us her masterpiece was done, we canceled our plans and packed our bags and flew from our cities to Warsaw, where, bedraggled and ecstatic, we took the train into town and boarded the bus for Białowieża.” Read from Jennifer Croft’s new novel, The Extinction of Irena Rey. | Lit Hub Fiction
- In light of several Supreme Court cases regarding free speech on the internet, David Cole asks: Who should regulate speech online? | The New York Review of Books
- “A group of librarians and web technologists found themselves in Dublin, Ohio, arguing over what single label should be used to designate a person responsible for the intellectual content of any file that could be found on the world wide web.” On how we came to describe web content. | Aeon
- Abdi Latif Dahir on the queer literature boom across Africa. | The New York Times
- “If there’s ever a question of whether to offer kindness to someone in pain, the answer is yes. Do it.” Emily Raboteau considers the necessity of rituals at the end of the world. | Orion
- Sigrid Nunez talks Seussian aspirations and rereading Rilke. | The Guardian
- Alex Kirshner on the decline of the “onetime titan of digital media,” Vice. | Slate
